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Helpers 4 TypeScript — v3 (alpha)

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Production-ready TypeScript utility functions — modular, strictly typed, exhaustively tested.

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What is helpers4?

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A collection of functional helpers to stop rewriting the same utility code across every project — each function does one thing, does it right, and ships with full type safety and exhaustive tests.

Born from 10 years of recoding the same domain-specific helpers across projects, helpers4 covers the gaps that popular general-purpose toolkits deliberately exclude: dates, URLs, semver, observables, promise guards. The Philosophy and the Radashi comparison pages explain the reasoning in detail.

  • ✅ Tree-shakable — import one function, pay for one function
  • ✅ Framework-agnostic — React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, or no framework at all
  • ✅ Well-typed — strict TypeScript, no any, full inference
  • ✅ Zero runtime dependencies — nothing pulled in at runtime
  • ✅ Battle-tested — 100% coverage, >90% mutation score, property-based · contract · boundary · security tests
  • ✅ Enterprise-grade — formal LGPL-3.0 license, audit-ready, predictable at scale
  • ✅ AI-ready — exhaustive contracts make every function safe to call from generated or agentic code

What’s in v3

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@helpers4/guardRuntime type guards (isString, isNull, isDefined, …)
@helpers4/typeCompile-time-only utility types, zero runtime footprint (DeepPartial, DeepWritable, Brand, Prettify, UnionToIntersection, DeepGet, DeepSet, Nullable/Nullish, RequiredKeys/OptionalKeys, PickByValue/OmitByValue, KeysOfType, Maybe, ValueOf)
Prototype pollution hardeningobject/compact and object/pick silently skip __proto__, constructor, prototype keys
Node.js 26 minimumRequired for native Temporal support — Node 24 works with the --harmony-temporal flag

Follow progress in the GitHub repository.

Comparisons

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Wondering how helpers4 stacks up against other utility libraries? See the comparisons section.

Name conflicts between categories

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Some helpers share the same name across multiple categories — for example, compact exists in both @helpers4/array and @helpers4/object because it is a genuinely different operation on a different data type. When you need both in the same file, use the standard ES module as rename:

import { compact as compact4array } from '@helpers4/array';
import { compact as compact4object } from '@helpers4/object';

See the full list in Name Conflicts.

Contributing

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Found a bug or want to suggest a helper? Open an issue on the TypeScript repository.

Want to improve this documentation? Use the Edit page link at the bottom of any page, or open an issue on the website repository.